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verifying progress bar on every file.

Hi All,

I upgraded my software today to macOS High Sierra and it now seems whenever I open a file be in media or others I get a prompt about "verifying the file". I just went to use Zipeg and when I went to extract I got the same message again and it took about 5 minutes for the verifying file bar to go away.

Is anyone else having this issue? I'm hoping its a basic setting that I need to turn off but so far no luck in finding anything.

Thanks in advance.

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 28, 2017 2:02 PM

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widemos

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Posted on Oct 4, 2017 2:26 AM

Hello, I was able to get rid of this annoyance. 🙂

Just launch this command in a Terminal opened in the folder that contains the involved files:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *

It will delete the quarantine flag from file's extended attributes and the verification won't appear. Replace the * with a filename/pattern if don't want it to affect every file.

Hope it helps.

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Oct 10, 2017 3:55 AM in response to fabio56

Running the command that I posted provides a temporary fix for the problem with opening files on shared volumes until apple comes up with a proper solution. That’s all that matters to me for now.

zoob57

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Oct 10, 2017 8:01 AM in response to Huss417

I spent a day and a half running the un-encrypting tool on of my 512GB SSD. Still, does not load. Disk utility reports it as APFS. All my other volumes are Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Oct 11, 2017 9:37 PM in response to da250

Yep, that's exactly what was suggested by me on page 4 of this thread.

Oct 11, 2017 11:41 PM in response to huddy1998

yes, the quarantine service can be switched back on.

Oct 12, 2017 12:38 AM in response to fabio56

It's only a security issue if you frequently download tons of potentially dangerous files that need to be checked before opening. Not my case.

Oct 18, 2017 10:28 AM in response to widemos

It fixed mine too!

Thanks a lot for sharing! 🙂

Huss417 Author

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Oct 20, 2017 1:49 PM in response to fabio56

Thanks for the heads up fabio56. I haven't heard anything. Curious when they will release it? I do think I will wait before trying again as things have been perfect since going back to Sierra.

fabio56

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Oct 21, 2017 1:43 AM in response to Huss417

10.13.1 has just been released for testing. I suppose it will go GA in no more than few weeks.

Oct 31, 2017 8:08 PM in response to jeremymk0077

Nice. Thanks for letting me know. Im gonna give it a try and see what happens. I will give update also. Thanks o ton

Nov 1, 2017 5:58 AM in response to jeremymk0077

Updated and verifying issue seems to be gone. Whooooop! Now if they will add Nikon D850 support. Ha!

fabio56

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Oct 7, 2017 7:16 AM in response to Barney-15E

My tests were also using SMB

You're one out of thousands (see other threads and Apple bug reports), so you deserve to put a flag "Lucky man" on your Mac.

Anyway, for the sake of this discussion, your message is quite useless, unless you report:

version of OSX you are using;
application you are using to play movies;
smb.conf and how are you mounting the share
if your Xprotect service is working and enabled;
whatever else may need us.

Huss417 Author

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Oct 8, 2017 10:26 AM in response to ron App

Hope it continues to work for you. A friend of mine did the same thing and it was still there after. I am now back on Sierra. I did lose data from the day I upgraded to High Sierra to going back to Sierra but it was worth it. Happy to no longer have the verify bar but we shouldn't have to be jumping through hoops to get things to work properly.

Jan 3, 2018 4:58 PM in response to synthetick

Look I don't know if this will help you but I had the same problems as you with opening MP4 and other media files and some applications taking a very long time to open and sometimes they just wouldn't open but then I read on a forum or a thread that someone had deleted their anti-virus which was called Avira and everything worked the way it should do. Well I also had Avira and once I deleted it everything worked the way it should have.....mp4 files opened in VLC without any problem and applications opened on one click....no spinning ball. So maybe there is an anti-virus software or some other software/application on your system that is causing the problems. Hope this helps.....as I say it worked for me.

Sep 29, 2017 1:27 PM in response to Huss417

Is that verify just the first time you open a file after the upgrade, or every time? Do you have SSD, and therefore the new file system?

fabio56

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Oct 20, 2017 1:44 PM in response to Huss417

I received this from Apple:

The original report on this issue, Bug ID 34023292, is closed as resolved in macOS 10.13.1 betas.

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

verifying progress bar on every file.